[The next day - Dodo Nest]
[Little brother, are you ready to start your training?]
Sugar asked with her usual smile
"Yes, by the way, how are you?"
[I'm fine, don't worry about me.
Let's go, White is waiting for us in the training room]
"There is also a training room in this building?
When you showed me around you never mentioned something like that" I asked while walking out of the room
[Indeed, we settled it up during the night, only for you] she said with a wink
"Thank you"
[Preparing a room for a new member of the family it's nothing]
When we entered the training room, White was already there waiting for us
"Welcome to the entrance of Heaven, little brother.
After learning how to fight you will be able to fight alongside me and kick the ass of those damn lizards"
He said with an evil smile on the face, he was probably thinking about killing some dragons…
"By the way, little sister, give him your last toy"
[Little brother, for now, it will work only within the city, but it will help you during the training]
After the last word left her mouth, the hologram of a window with writings appeared in front of me, while a cold mechanical voice echoed in my ears
[Activation of the Dodo system in progress…
Dodo system successfully activated
New achievement unlocked: [Friend of the system]:
The system will talk with you with its true voice and will help you whenever it can. ]
After the last sentence, the system voice changed, becoming the same voice that I am used to hearing every day
[Little brother, you like my gift, right?
We plan to give the system to all humans in the future, the system will give them all the information that they need to become stronger as a reward for working for us and fighting our enemies, besides, we can use it to spy on them]
She said with an evil smirk on her face
"Can you manage a system like this for billions of people?"
[Of course, with enough energy and resources I can do everything!]
"OK, how will the system be useful to me?"
[Title obtained : [Emperor of the Dodo Empire] (only one person can obtain this title, it will change the owner at the death of the actual user) :
As the emperor, it's your right and duty to manage all your human subjects, be aware that if your actions are against the interest of the empire you will lose this title.
As the emperor of the empire and as a friend of the system, you will obtain all the necessary knowledge whenever you need it for free.
As the user of the system with the highest level of authority, every other human that attacks you will become an enemy of the system, his position will be always known by any other user and a bounty will be placed on his head.]
"What the hell is this?"
[With the system, every human will work for us, but they won't be loyal to us, they will become something like a mercenary, however, if they join the empire, they will obtain limited knowledge that would be impossible to obtain otherwise.]
"No, what I'm asking is, why should I do it? Can't you choose someone else?"
[You said that you would have repaid for everything we are doing for you, didn't you? You can consider this as the way that we choose to settle the matter, is this fine with you?]
She answered while chuckling
Besides, if you accept I will always be with you'
"Fine"
"Okay, stop talking nonsense and let's start this lesson" White said after seeing that their conversation wasn't going toward the direction that he liked.
He was looking at us with a bored expression
"Unfortunately the mana density in this place is low, even with the mana gathering array added by our sister, there is still not enough mana to practice any useful spell"
He sighed in disappointment
"However, we can do a virtual simulation of a training room with a higher density of mana thanks to these toys over there" he pointed toward a pair of capsules in the corner of the room.
"Now sit at the center of the room, close your eyes, extend all of your senses and tell me if you can feel the mana around you"
After doing as he said I stood there for a whole minute before noticing something
"I feel a fog-like substance around me, but I can't touch it…"
"Impressive, that is a good start, I will help you to make the mana flow within your body"
He said with a happy smile
When he started to control the mana around me and make it flow within me I felt like I couldn't breathe anymore, I asked him to stop but he simply replied
"If you can't control the mana within your body, let alone fighting, you will not even be able to survive, use your will to make the mana flow through your heart, it's already mutated so it will be even easier than what other humans will face"
After trying again and again and almost dying, White removed the mana disappointed while mumbling "I hoped to skip the boring part and go directly to the practical training…"
After waiting around a minute for me to recover, he injected again the mana within me, that is how the torture began.
After being tortured for the whole morning, I finally managed to control the mana within me and make it flow without suffering from it.
[Wow, you managed to control within your body in less than a day, this is an awesome result, you know]
She said while eating some popcorn-like virtual food
White instead seems to be quite excited
"Finally, let's go with true training!"
He said while walking toward the capsule
"Shouldn't we eat something?"
I asked since I am quite hungry
"Today, only military rations, you have five minutes to eat." He said after taking out a gray-colored package with the image of a dodo and an inscription that says: inject your mana here to eat the food
"I don't know how to inject my mana here…"
"If that is the case then, I am very sorry, I am sure that next time you will be luckier"
He didn't seem sorry at all, on the contrary, he seemed to enjoy torturing me
"If you have already ended eating, enter your human-sized capsule, and start the true training!"
He said while entering his own capsule
When I entered in my capsule, I found myself in a very large field where other dodos were training all kinds of strange spells.
Someone was going around firing fireballs, others were using ice spikes, spears, there was also a ten-meters tall tornado who was forcefully dragging around some dodos, and from the distance, I also noticed two undead armies that were fighting each other.
For the first time, I felt an emotion as my heart beated slightly faster
'This is going to be funny!'
After looking around me for a moment I decided to cast something, unfortunately, I don't even know where to start …
After failing to do cast something I found myself in a giant snowstorm while a voice echoed around me
"Haha! Little brother, welcome to heaven!"
'Sugar was right, this guy has some problems'
[I'm always right]
'What the hell!?
Can you hear my thoughts?'
[Yep, I added this function to your system so that during the battles I can communicate faster with you]
'Okay, what should I do to cast a spell?'
[Ask that crazy dodo over there] She said while a yellow arrow compared over White's head
He didn't even noticed it, so I think that only I can see it.
"Brother, what should I do to cast a spell?"
"Control the mana around you just as you did when it was within your body after you succeed, call me and I will tell, now do whatever you want while I teach those guys what a true spell is!"
After saying this he moved his snowstorm toward the ten-meter tall tornado, when they collided, thousands of ice shards formed around the tornado killing all the dodos around it.
While White was playing around with the other dodos I tried to move the mana around me, after a lot of failures, Sugar helped me out
[Move the mana that touches your skin within your body, after that, make the mana flow through your body and swap it constantly with the mana out of your body, it's something like breathing]
After doing as she said, I realized that it was a lot easier than what I was doing before.
While all of this was happening, on the other side of the field a group of Dodo was gathering…